overplus
Example Sentences
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At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.
From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold
Fifteen pounds of luggage are allowed, and twenty-one francs per cent is charged for the overplus.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth
The overplus, which will come to about thirty pounds each, is to be applied for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who have nobly fallen in the action.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
When this process is performed with exact attention to chemical laws, so that the acid and alkali completely neutralize each other, leaving no overplus of either, the result is often very 160 palatable.
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
They possess indeed two distinct diets; they do not preserve for the period of famine the overplus of the foods which they consume in the period of abundance.
From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay
